Webcasts, Products, and Other Projects

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The Webcasts and other products listed below are projects from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Knowledge Transfer (KT)/Implementation program, which disseminates products, tools, and research to specific target groups and provides help to implement them.

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Emergency Preparedness Webcasts
Hospital Product Line
Increasing Clinicians' Use of Effective Health Care Program Products
Medication Adherence

Emergency Preparedness Webcasts

Description:

These Webcasts help stakeholders, especially States and communities, find and use AHRQ's emergency preparedness products. The project:

• Enhances awareness among key stakeholders about AHRQ's brand in the emergency preparedness arena, including its leadership role in creating useful and timely tools.
• Increases knowledge among decisionmakers about the suite of AHRQ tools available to them.
• Provides feedback to AHRQ regarding participation in the Web casts to inform its future educational offerings and outreach efforts.

Links:

• Emergency Preparedness Webcasts: http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/index.html#audio
• For more information, contact Ellen Crown (Ellen.Crown@ahrq.hhs.gov).

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Hospital Product Line

Description:

The Hospital Product Line helps hospitals and health systems enhance the quality and safety of care they provide to patients by implementing AHRQ products and tools.

Links:

• Products and Tools:
  • The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.
  • CAHPS® Hospital Survey
  • TeamSTEPPS™
  • The Improving Patient Flow in the Emergency Department toolkit
  • The Preventing Venous Thromboembolisms in the Hospital toolkit
  • Re-Engineered Hospital Discharge project (Project RED)
• For more information, contact Margie Shofer (Margie.Shofer@ahrq.hhs.gov).

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Increasing Clinicians Use of Effective Health Care Program Products

Description:

This project helps implement an efficient and effective strategy for disseminating Effective Health Care products to clinicians. This includes Comparative Effectiveness Review executive summaries and products resulting from the work of the Eisenberg Center (including summary guides for clinicians and consumers).

Initial efforts will focus on dissemination and utilization of EHC guides on osteoarthritis and diabetes medications. Models for dissemination and utilization will be applied to other clinical areas. Special emphasis will be placed on using Effective Health Care guides for continuing medical education.

Links:

• Effective Health Care Web site: http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/
• Eisenberg Center: http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/aboutUs.cfm?abouttype=eisenberg
• For more information, contact Bruce Seeman (Bruce.Seeman@ahrq.hhs.gov).

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Medication Adherence

Description:

The Medication Adherence project aims to achieve consensus on messages about medical adherence (if people take medications as prescribed) and an action plan for a sustained public education campaign on medication adherence. Consensus will be sought among representatives of key groups, including clinicians, consumers, insurers, businesses, States, pharmacists, drug manufacturers, and others, to review and promote existing research and tools related to medication safety and adherence. Four focus groups will be conducted.

Links:

• For more information, contact Kristie Kiser (Kristie.Kiser@ahrq.hhs.gov).

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Current as of August 2009

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Internet Citation:

AHRQ's Knowledge Transfer/Implementation Program: Webcasts, Products, and Other Projects. August 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/kt/ktwebcasts.htm

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